A man and a donkey came to the Guangshan County Ya out of breath, turned over and got off the donkey, and said to the official in front of the county ya: "Trouble Brother Ya, I want to see the whole master." ”

"Are you ......?" The official asked.

"In the same year."

Two words are enough.

The difference between the Song Dynasty and the history is still not very big, one is a tribute, needless to say, the scholars can also serve as officials, of course, the future of the two will be completely different, but the early Song Dynasty did not admit many tribute students, so the number of officials is not large. The second is to play the shade, there are different shade supplements, supplements, grace shades, Ziyin, playing, Renzi and other different shade supplements, the objects of the shade supplements are the children and grandchildren of officials, and the descendants of relatives of the three services, such as the children of the uncle's family, the children of the uncle's family, and the direct family of the official. The third is the regent, there are no regular officials in some remote areas, so the officials are asked to handle government affairs for the officials. If you don't do well to win, if you do well, you will be rewarded, then it has become the fourth type of way to appoint officials, out of office, if you do a glorious job in the office, from a small official directly to an official, or a regent Xu official to a formal official, just like Liu Wei who Lei Youlin complained, he is the regent, if there is no Lei Youlin to expose the report, then it will become a formal official, if you do a good job, you will rise step by step. Most of the officials in the early Song Dynasty were promoted in this form.

These people have been small officials below for many years, and then they have become officials step by step, with the experience of officials, the experience of officials, and at the same time, they are promoted from tens of thousands of small officials, and they can be called competent. But in the future, it gradually became unacceptable, and the officials became more and more redundant, and even the Jinshi of the tribute were not made to be officials, and they made clear regulations again. The maximum number of officers who are employed cannot exceed the seventh-rank martial arts doctors. Then a group of learned and well-read officials held important official positions, and the whole country was controlled by a group of nerds, and there was also a nice term called bookish qi!

It's not about being an official by experience. is to be an official by virtue of bookishness......

There is also the most popular way to select and allocate officials, with military merits and martial arts as military attachés, and later, Fan Zhongyan proposed to settle the finances in the northwest.

However, under the impetus of Song Jiu, a new way was born, also called the academy officials.

Over the years, the imperial court has successively used hundreds of academy students. As soon as he came out, he served as an important official in various ministries and departments and prefectures and counties.

However, when they were used, there were many concerns, and the first batch of students were too heavily influenced by Song Jiu, and there was no Zhao Pu. Zhao Kuangyin was also somewhat hesitant. The vicious fight between Zhao Pu and Zhao Kuangyi had some impact.

Yet this group is so good, especially the Dermanics. Later, Song Jiu gradually let go, and Decao never let go. At the entrance of the academy are two lines of large characters. Zhengda is bright and loyal to the country, although it is a little worse, but it can be learned more comprehensively. It is impossible for the imperial court not to see it.

The scale of the academy is expanding, but there are not many students released every year, only more than 200 people, and the imperial court can only use half of the more than 200 people. After every graduation exam, all ministries and departments are desperately scrambling for people. even pleaded for mercy to Zhao Kuangyin. I don't have talent in my hands, and I have to do so many things. Your Majesty, give it to me.

Therefore, after Zhao Pu stepped down, Song Jiu gradually let go, so the imperial court successively selected some of them to serve as deputy attribute officials in various states and counties.

Strictly speaking, they are still officials, that is, officials who have been promoted by small officials, but they are still a little different from other officials, so they have another name, academy officials, including Bo Quan Zhenfu, the lord of Guanghua County.

Hearing that his classmates were coming, Quan Zhenfu hurriedly came out of the back hall, looked at Tian Qiao, who was embarrassed, and asked in surprise: "Brother Anyuan, why are you from Qizhou?" ”

"Kui Yi, it's hard to put it into words."

"Come in, please." Quan Zhenfu welcomed Tian Qiao in and asked the official to bring tea.

After taking a sip of tea, Tian Qiao said: "Qin Zhizhou of Qizhou is greedy for ink and salt wine money, I am kind to advise, he did not listen, but borrowed me and my wife when I was not prepared to go out, put tens of thousands of money in my house, slandered me for stealing treasury money, an old servant in the state couldn't stand it, notified me in advance, I saw that things were not good, all the way north, escaped from Qizhou, but I didn't expect this guy to send a sea fishing document, I had to rush from the mountains to Guanghua. ”

From Qizhou to Guanghua, if you pull a straight line, it is from Huangzhou to Guangzhou, Guan Jian this straight line can not be pulled, in the north of Huangzhou is the boundless Dabie Mountain, almost no road. Usually from Huangzhou to the north, from Huangpi to Anzhou, and then to Xinyang, go around a circle to the west to get to Gwangju, but then you don't need to go to Gwangju, you can directly enter the capital, you can sue the royal court, and the lawsuit will be brought to the imperial stage.

This was forced by the sea fishing documents, and the road from Anju was impassable, so I entered Dabie Mountain and followed the rugged mountain road to Gwangju. And can not go any further, Gwangju to Huangzhou across the mountains, has not yet received the sea capture documents, and then Caizhou, as long as Tian Qiao comes forward, he will inevitably be arrested, and then sent to Qizhou for interrogation. When he arrived in Qizhou, he couldn't explain it clearly, so when he came to Guanghua County, Tian Qiao thought of his old classmate.

Quan Zhen replied: "So Qizhou sent a catcher? ”

"Yes, but Kuiyi, can you let me have a meal?" Tian Qiao smiled bitterly.

This is Song Jiu's previous teaching, once you enter politics, as long as you don't break the law, you must be your own master, and you can't seek personal favors with each other. Just like Zhao Pu's timber business also hired students from the study, but the fight was so fierce, Song Jiu did not ask Zhao Pu's accounts through these two students. Tian Qiao can't say that Qin Zhizhou is greedy for ink, and Quan Zhenfu must believe it. Since Qizhou issued a document of arrest, it must be based on the document of the Qizhou government.

However, when things are handled in the hands of old classmates, the nature will be different.

Quan Zhenfu entertained his old classmates, and then took Tian Qiao, who was crying and laughing, into the Guanghua cell, without notifying Qizhou, because the corruption was wine and salt, so he wrote a report and handed it to the third division.

I don't know if it's true or false, I don't dare to send people to Qizhou, and I don't dare to let people go, so I ask the court to inquire.

It can't be regarded as a big case, send a few old officials who are good at arithmetic accounts to investigate, and the truth will be revealed. But now Chu Zhaofu is still serving as the third envoy, and when he saw Quan Zhenfu detaining Tian Qiao first and then reporting it, he felt that it was a typical case of public law enforcement, so he reported it to the imperial court.

Zhao Kuangyin also thought it was very interesting, and thought of another person. Song Jiu.

It's not that Zhao Kuangyin doesn't want to use Song Jiu, there is indeed something. Song Jiu didn't pay much attention to the problems in his research. Several studies went hand in hand, and the last one saw that there was little progress, and almost half of the time he stayed in the steel prison. It was not until the end of the year that the technology of the small blast furnace was handed over, and it had to be further improved, but it was barely able to be officially promoted. But until now, the technology of medium and large blast furnaces has not been perfected, and the blast furnace has been built and demolished. After demolishing and building, it began to deform, and finally twisted in mid-air at the end of the year. Seeing that something was wrong, everyone fled together, and then with a bang, the huge blast furnace fell down. As long as no one dies. There will be no impeachment. It was meant to be scrapped. Song Jiu built several new blast furnaces on the spot and continued to toss. He paid a lot out of his pocket, and the state also subsidized a lot of money. At this time, Song Jiu's heart could not be divided.

Others, however, seem to be equally important.

Or Zhao Kuangyin has other ideas, Song Jiu is still a little waiting master and does not hold an official position.

It happened that Song Jiu was at home, and when he heard Zhao Kuangyin announcing him, he immediately rode into the palace.

Zhao Kuangyin asked him to sit down. Asked: "Song Jiu, how is your blast furnace studied?" ”

"Your Majesty. There are still some details that Weichen has not figured out, so please forgive Your Majesty for another half a year. ”

"Half a year, I can wait," Zhao Kuangyin said, even if Zhao Pu is here, he can only say this sentence, this is the biggest change in the history of Chinese steel, once it can succeed, with the increase in territory, and find some iron pits, the use of gunpowder, the amount of iron in the Song Dynasty will make leaps and bounds, last year the total amount of iron reached more than 10 million catties, not only quantity, but also quality, once the blast furnace technology is mature, all iron ore at least converted into high-quality wrought iron. Even a few years later, the Song Dynasty was able to see the germ of the Iron Age. Zhao Kuangyin definitely doesn't know what the future generations of Lu Dao will be, but this significant change can still be seen.

"Song Jiu, you haven't entered the palace for a year, have you?"

"The last time the Great Food Envoy came, I entered the palace for a banquet once, less than a year, almost ten months."

"Ten months," Zhao Kuangyin was in a trance, and said, "Recently, I have become more and more sentimental. ”

Song Jiu was silent, Zhao Kuangyin is gradually getting old, even if he is not old, his mentality is old, Gao Huaide's stepwife Princess Yanguo died, Zhao Kuangyin cried bitterly, and said to the left and right, next year's Christmas Day, when the boycott will be banned. That is, on his birthday, the Spring Festival is not allowed to play music. In the book under the door to admonish, the king's etiquette is absolutely correct, although His Majesty is under the thick of friendship, but the ministers are on the longevity, no joy is not polite, I hope that the workshop will be happy. On the surface, his sister died, and Zhao Kuangyin was sad.

Putting aside the surface and analyzing it carefully, it is actually after the loss of relatives, especially after the Zhao Pu incident, Zhao Kuangyin's mentality is getting old and feeling sad. Yes, Princess Yanguo was not very good to him when he was a child, but it was a matter of childhood, when he grew up, he became the emperor, do you still need to care. Look at when the princess of Yanguo was alive, although he had sisters, only one princess of Yanguo was alive, why bother with the past, he didn't give her enough glory and wealth, but gave it to Zhao Pu, but what about Zhao Pu.

That's why I regret it.

This is a sign of the aging of Du's mentality, he is a person who does great things, not Song Jiu, why bother mother-in-law and mother-in-law, if he dies, he will die. At this time, I regret using it.

"Look at ......"

Song Jiu took it and looked at it, and asked suspiciously: "Your Majesty let Weichen see it, what aspect do you mean?" ”

"Quan Zhenfu is the same year as Tian Qiao, right?"

"Yes, but as state officials, Weichen has repeatedly warned them that they cannot abolish the public for personal reasons. Including Wechen, once they walked out of the school or college, Wechen never exchanged many private messages with them, or urged them not to give up their studies, and new textbooks appeared in the college, and Wechen sent them so that they could continue to study on their own and increase their knowledge in their spare time. In particular, the first few batches of students who were released have studied for a year, and their knowledge is not deep, and if they do not study by themselves, they will be eliminated. For the rest, Wechen no longer has dealings with them, and they are also prevented from interacting with them. Two people become friends, three people become a party, and the friends will have endless disasters. ”

"Two people become friends, three people become a party, that's a good point, how is Tian Qiao?"

"He is a student of the school, Weichen has the impression, this is a disciple of Hebei, good at arithmetic accounting, very flexible, but has never been evil, Weichen once valued him very much, but his family is poor, and later for the court to levy Xu officials, Weichen did not stop. But as a Xu official, his income is very low, and he has entered the society, people will change, and Weichen does not dare to make an evaluation. The merits of the matter, send someone down to find out. ”

In the Song Dynasty, most of the officials were servant systems, but there were also recruitment, and the central institutions, such as the Privy Council under the Zhongshu Sect of the Three Ya and the Three Divisions, etc., were mostly recruited, that is, the employment system. After moving forward, the guide is secondary. The most inferior are the coolies such as Yazuo and Scales and Kuzi, some of which are recruited and hired, and some are directly commissioned by errands. The officials in various states and counties are basically the system of errand service, and the difference is that the rich households hold the position.

By the hands of Song Jiu, now the Song Dynasty has become more complicated, Guangnan is exempt from military service, but it is not completely exempt, and some temporary military errands still use the errand service method, and the people are hired to take turns to serve. The law of exemption from military service has basically been implemented for permanent servants, that is, the rich pay for exemption and hire people to serve as servants. For example, Guangzhou is the richest and largest state capital in Guangnan, and it uses a lot of errands, almost more than 900 permanent errands, but the cost of living is high, and the employment money is also high. Lianzhou is mountainous, has a small population, lives in poverty, uses a small number of errand labor, and raises less money, and there is a second step of adjustment, in addition to paying its own errand money every year, Guangzhou also has to share some money to fund these poor states and counties. In this way, Guangzhou's burden is still not heavy, but it will be a little difficult for Lianzhou to cope. Another example is Leizhou, which was originally a relatively bad area in Guangnan, just like when Dayu ruled the water, Yangzhou is the worst area in Kyushu, but now the water conservancy is overhauled, and many seawalls have been built one after another, and there are many plains on the Leizhou Peninsula, plus there is a coastal economy along the coast, and it will gradually become a better area in Guangnan. Then the service money must also be constantly adjusted.

This is a change in Quang Nam.

It has not affected the Song Dynasty, first, Guangnan has barely become better, of course, it cannot be compared with the Southern Han Dynasty, which is hell. The second is that there are many local heroes, this strong and powerful is not only the leader of the barbarians, but also includes some local Han people's armed strength, as well as the big leaders of the familiar barbarians, the change will be supported if it is beneficial to them, and the opposition will be opposed if it is not profitable, and even some people do not know the height of the sky, and rebel one after another. These don't need Pan Mei's hands, it's not worth it. The states and counties themselves were wiped out one by one, and even inspired by Song Jiu, if they were level, they would govern one place.

Therefore, its total amount was not enough to affect the rest of the Song Dynasty.

The second is the Xu officials of the academy, none of the students released out of the Lu are officials, they are all Xu officials, a quarter of them stay in the ministries and departments of the capital, and three-quarters of them are released out of the city, these small officials are slightly higher than the salary of the small officials recruited by Song Jiu in Guangnan, the money is about the same, the gap is in the various subsidies, but it is still not as good as the counties and counties, and the miscellaneous ones are added together in a year, and it is only seventy or eighty yuan, which is only equivalent to the salary of the high-class servants in the workshop of Song Jiu Hezhou.

Therefore, it has caused a diversion of some talents, and some people would rather be supervisors in private shops than petty officials. The salary gap is too large, and the difference between the higher can be more than ten times. But it also depends on how you think, some people see it as an opportunity to be promoted to official officials, so they are willing to serve as small officials, and the richer the family, the more people are willing to serve as state officials. After all, this official has a certain meaning that is somewhat different from those servants.

Song Jiu didn't contact him, and he didn't know what Tian Qiao's family situation was now, but his family was very poor before, and he defected to Quanzhen in the same year, so Song Jiu didn't dare to draw conclusions.

"I know that Qin Qian did have this matter," Zhao Kuangyin said, hearing that Tian Qiao is a disciple of Hebei, Zhao Kuangyin did not need to check, and concluded that the academy has been expanding over the years, and there are a small number of bad ones, but the children of Lianghe have always been a golden signboard, and none of them are bad. He also said: "This is a book made by Zhongshu, you can take a look." ”

Song Jiu opened it and took a look, and there was a line of words in the book, ordering the governors of the prefectures, the general judges, the judges, the soldiers and horses, the county orders to hold the salt koji and the city levy, the land class, etc., and came to it in person.

This koji koji refers to sake. That is to say, the main officials of the prefectures and counties and the soldiers and horses must personally inquire about the taxation of the subordinate cities, various franchises and local taxes, and then report the accounts within the jurisdiction to the three divisions for inquiry every month.

Song Jiu put it down and said, "It's not proper, increasing officials in vain may not be effective." And ......"

"And what?"

"It's not clear, it's unfair, it's not clear." (To be continued......)